Monday, 26 May 2014 The White House press service unwittingly put the real name of the CIA’s top spy in Afghanistan on the ‘pool report’ distributed among journalists accompanying the American president on a surprise trip… Read More ›
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The Taliban is paying Afghans $5 to surrender their voter cards before tomorrow’s election
Hamid Shalizi, Thomson Reuters April 4, 2014 11:40 Subscribe to Hamid Shalizi, Thomson Reuters on Facebook Saturday’s election will bring the first democratic transfer of power in war-torn Afghanistan and an end to the rule of President Hamid Karzai…. Read More ›
Former warlord campaigns to fill Karzai’s shoes
Rebranding?: Afghan presidential candidate and former Islamist warlord Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf delivers a speech during an election gathering in Kabul on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI West worries 9/11 ‘mentor’ may become new Afghan president AP Feb 7, 2014 KABUL –… Read More ›
Hell for Women has a name: Afghanistan
– Afghanistan has effectively legalised domestic violence by changing a law so it will become impossible for anyone to testify against relatives, thus making Afghanistan the most idiotic country on Earth. Thursday, 06 February 2014
Russian military to train combat engineers for Afghan army
Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian military will train combat engineers for the Afghan army to ensure safe and efficient mine sweeping in the war-torn Central Asian country, Russia’s defense minister said Wednesday. “We are working on the creation of… Read More ›
Afghanistan’s poppy farmers plant record opium crop, UN report says
Despite 10 years of western efforts to curb production, a combination of economics and political instability means farmers in the world’s largest heroin-producing country are as enthusiastic as ever for the poppy Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul theguardian.com, Wednesday 13 November… Read More ›
Depression: ‘Now the Second biggest cause of disability’ in world
By Helen Briggs BBC News Depression is common across the world Depression is the second most common cause of disability worldwide after back pain, according to a review of research. The disease must be treated as a global public… Read More ›
Afghanistan: There Is No Law
November 2, 2013: The 2013 fighting season in Afghanistan has come to an end and the Taliban have failed to overwhelm the Afghan security forces, who took over security responsibility for most of the country this year. The… Read More ›
Support rallies for soldier who faces disciplinary hearing for sending classified information from his personal email which could have saved three lives
By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 23:32 EST, 26 October 2013 | UPDATED: 23:34 EST, 26 October 2013 A well-intentioned honest mistake could cost Major Jason Brezler his position as a Marine reservist. Maj Brezler found himself in hot water last … Read More ›
U.S. Army says only two brigades fully trained due to budget cuts ( That is only 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers )
Source: Reuters – Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:44 PM Author: Reuters * Spending reductions this year fell heavily on training dollars * Top Army leaders appeal for greater budget certainty By David Alexander WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Two years… Read More ›
Afghan special forces commander defects with guns to insurgents
Source: Reuters – Sun, 20 Oct 2013 03:45 PM Author: Reuters By Mohammad Anwar KUNAR, Afghanistan, Oct 20 (Reuters) – An Afghan army special forces commander has defected to an insurgent group allied with the Taliban in a Humvee truck… Read More ›
Afghan special forces commander joins Taliban, takes a tank with him
Photo: EPA An Afghan army commander with the special force unit has joined the Taliban, taking a tank and some weapons and ammunition with him, an army official said Sunday. “The commander of Afghan special forces of the national army… Read More ›
Kerry fails to secure deal on US ‘troop immunity’ in Afghanistan
Published time: October 13, 2013 07:51 US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) gives a press conference on October 12, 2013 with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul.(AFP Photo / Massoud Hossaini) Talks between… Read More ›
Body Armor Details May Be Kept Close to the Chest
By RYAN ABBOTT WASHINGTON (CN) – A federal judge won’t force the Pentagon to release autopsy information of U.S. soldiers killed in action to a former Marine doing research on the effectiveness of body armor. Roger Charles has… Read More ›
University for all was a complete nonsense
WHEN historians come to ponder quite what a shambles the last Labour government made of absolutely everything they will dwell on the headline stuff: Iraq, Afghanistan, destroying the pension system and so on. But there’s a less high-profile mess-up… Read More ›
Special report: The punishment was death by stoning. The crime? Having a mobile phone
This barbaric form of execution is on the rise, and campaigners are calling on the UN to act Emma Batha Sunday, 29 September 2013 Two months ago, a young mother of two was stoned to death by her relatives on… Read More ›
Pakistan to free Taliban chief who may hold key to Afghan talks
Kabul hopes former Taliban second-in-command Abdul Ghani Baradar could broker peace government peace deal with rebels Jon Boone in Islamabad theguardian.com, Tuesday 10 September 2013 10.53 EDT Foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz said Pakistan had agreed to free Baradar… Read More ›
U.S. Army sergeant receives Medal of Honor at White House ceremony
EEV: Deserves acknowledgement Source: Reuters – Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:42 PM Author: Reuters By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor on Monday to Army Staff Sergeant Ty Carter,… Read More ›
General was called ‘Poppa Panda Sexy’ pants by junior officer he was having an affair with, court hears as he faces jail for sex assault
Affair lasted for three years between the general and a Captain who was 17-years younger Relationship occurred across continents and war zones as the pair encountered one another Captain flew into a jealous rage and began emailing other officers Sinclair… Read More ›
“Purge the Generals: What it will take to fix the army”
The US military is preparing for the wrong future When it comes to military reform, China appears to be doing it a lot better than the United States Daniel Davis theguardian.com, Thursday 8 August 2013 10.30 EDT US army… Read More ›
Afghanistan: Taliban backers win £100m in US contracts
Washington politicians demand tighter controls to stop cash for reconstruction from going to supporters of Afghan insurgency Jonathan Owen Sunday, 4 August 2013 The US government has awarded more than $150m (£98m) in contracts to companies and individuals in Afghanistan… Read More ›
Parents of SEAL killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash join billion-dollar lawsuit against the government after ‘their Verizon phone was tapped when they started asking questions over their son’s death’
Charles and Mary Anne Strange, from Philadelphia, said they heard strange tapping on the line in the months after son Michael’s death Mr Strange said: ‘When I started asking questions, that’s when my phone got tapped’ By Daily Mail Reporter… Read More ›
Militants attack NATO headquarters in Kabul International Airport
Afghan security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in the capital, Kabul. (File photo) Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:12AM GMT Kabul International Airport is home to the NATO Joint Command headquarters. Militants have attacked a US-led military… Read More ›
Afghan President Hamid Karzai admits to millions of dollars of US payments to national security
Monday, 29 April 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that his national security team has been receiving payments from the US government for the past 10 years. Mr Karzai confirmed the payments when he was asked about… Read More ›
Millions in CIA “ghost money” paid to Afghan president’s office -NYT
Source: Reuters – Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:43 AM Author: Reuters April 29 (Reuters) – Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan… Read More ›
Nearly half of veterans found with blast concussions might have hormone deficiencies
Contact: Donna Krupa dkrupa@the-aps.org American Physiological Society Condition often unrecognized, mimics symptoms of PTSD, depression BOSTON—Up to 20 percent of veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq have experienced at least one blast concussion. New research suggests that nearly half these… Read More ›
U.S. Army Learns Hard Lessons in N. Korea-like War Game
Mar. 26, 2013 – 12:44PM | By PAUL McLEARY | WASHINGTON — It took 56 days for the U.S. to flow two divisions’ worth of soldiers into the failed nuclear-armed state of “North Brownland” and as many as 90,000 troops… Read More ›
US Commander in Afghanistan issues threat advisory after Karzai’s anti-American comments
Mar 14, 2013 21:29 Moscow Time Photo: EPA The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has been put on heightened alert in connection with bellicose rhetoric by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, local media reported on Thursday. Earlier this week,… Read More ›
Afghan president Hamid Karzai Claims US was effectively colluding with the Taliban in maintaining violence to prolong America’s presence in the country.White House rejected as “categorically false”
White House: claims of US collusion with Taliban ‘categorically false’ Obama spokesman rejects Karzai’s criticism of US as Afghan in police uniform kills seven including two American troops Ewen MacAskill in Washington guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 March 2013 15.51 EDT The… Read More ›
$36 Billion of Military Hardware Could Be Destroyed in Afghan Pullout
Newsmax Tuesday, March 5, 2013 11:21 AM By: Todd Beamon The Obama White House is cutting $65 billion in the sequester, but it could easily leave or torch 750,000 pieces of major military hardware — worth $36 billion — in… Read More ›
Syria must be defenseless for America to illegaly invade, Rated:XXX ” Russian troops are on the ground”
John Robles Jan 9, 2013 20:31 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Poised and ready to invade Syria and continue its plans for complete global military and political domination at any cost, the US is faltering and has yet to invade Syria…. Read More ›
Did general David Petraeus grant friends access to top secret files?
Petraeus was forced out of the CIA in part because his mistress read sensitive documents. Now it is alleged he granted two friends astonishing access to top secret files as he ran the Afghan surge. In a painstaking investigation, Rajiv… Read More ›
McChrystal Working for UAE-Owned Arms Brokerage
Dec. 13, 2012 – 11:23AM | By ARAM ROSTON | Gen. Stanley McChrystal is on the strategic advisory board of Knowledge International LLC. (Defense Department) From an office park a few miles south of Washington’s Reagan National Airport, a little-known… Read More ›
Egyptian Jihadi Leader Says: Destroy the Pyramids
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 6:59am by Sharona Schwartz Egypt’s Great Pyramids (photo credit: Wikipedia) An Egyptian jihadi leader is calling for the destruction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, that is, the Great Pyramids…. Read More ›
Gen. John Allen investigated for emails to Petraeus friend
latimes.com The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for alleged “inappropriate communications” with a woman who is said to have received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Petraeus had an extramarital affair…. Read More ›
The Sins Of General David Petraeus
Engineering Evil: Need second confirmation on article data. Petraeus seduced America. We should never have trusted him. Michael Hastings BuzzFeed Staff posted a few minutes ago Posted Nov 11, 2012 5:43pm EST The fraud that General David Petraeus perpetrated… Read More ›
Jill Kelley, State Dept. liaison, is mystery woman Paula Broadwell harassed via email leading to FBI probe: AP
Another person who knows Kelley and David Petraeus confirmed their friendship and said she saw him often, according to The Associated Press Sunday, November 11, 2012, 3:04 PM A senior U.S. military official says the author who had an affair… Read More ›
David Petraeus: Did FBI Compromise National Security for Obama Re-election?
Broadwell was embedded with soldiers in Afghanistan for a year By Geetha Pillai: Subscribe to Geetha’s RSS feed November 11, 2012 5:59 AM GMT David Petraeus resigns as CIA director. Image: Twitter The FBI withheld the information that former director… Read More ›
An SAS hero has been jailed for possessing a “war trophy” pistol presented to him by the Iraqi Army for outstanding service
SAS war hero jailed after ‘betrayal’ Sgt Danny Nightingale with his wife Sally on their wedding day and, right, on duty Photo: WARREN SMITH By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent 9:00PM GMT 10 Nov 2012 Sgt Danny Nightingale, a special forces… Read More ›
Petraeus Resigns Over Affair With Biographer
By Fred Kaplan Posted Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at 5:26 PM ET David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Jan. 31 Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images. The woman with whom Gen. David Petraeus was having an affair is… Read More ›
Ted Turner says it’s ‘good’ U.S. soldiers are committing suicide in large numbers because it proves humans aren’t programmed to kill
A total of 247 U.S. army personnel are suspected to have taken their own lives between January and September This compares to 222 combat deaths in Afghanistan to October 22 CNN founder claims it’s time to put war and conflict… Read More ›
Afghan ‘Woman of Courage’ hailed by Michelle Obama for defending women’s rights has actually JAILED 100 wives for ‘adultery’
More than 50% of women jailed for adultery in Afghanistan come from province prosecuted by Ms Bashir – which holds just 20% of the population By Eddie Wrenn Last year she was hailed as one of the most influential… Read More ›
The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders
And how the Pentagon later turned on them by: Guy Lawson HIGH ON WAR: David Packouz (left) and Efraim Diveroli at a gun range near Miami (top). One of the illegal shipments of ammo they supplied to the Afghan… Read More ›
Afghanistan ‘sliding towards collapse’
Afghan forces are far from ready to secure a country riddled with violence and corruption, Red Cross and thinktank warn Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 October 2012 13.39 EDT Afghan security forces at the site of a suicide attack… Read More ›
Obama administration officials say there’s no point crafting detailed sequestration plans
Prepare for the Worst Oct. 7, 2012 – 04:14PM | By THE DEFENSE NEWS STAFF Obama administration officials say there’s no point crafting detailed sequestration plans, given it’s a crisis created by Congress that might never happen. But Pentagon… Read More ›
U.S. Army General who ‘had forced sex and inappropriate relationships with female soldiers’ in Afghanistan flown home in disgrace
Jeffrey Sinclair returned to Fort Bragg after being posted with Airborne Division in 2010 Sinclair has been in the Army for 27 years and served in first Gulf War Charges include possessing pornography and alcohol while deployed By Daily Mail… Read More ›
Revolutionary life saving Palantir software denied to the 3rd Infantry Division because of Red tape. Even though the company offered its technology on a cost-free basis
Army Investigating 3rd Infantry Division’s Acquisition of Controversial Intel Software Sep. 20, 2012 – 06:16AM | By PAUL MCLEARY An Aug. 16 email from the Army’s acting assistant secretary for acquisition, Heidi Shyu, demanded “immediate corrective action” after she discovered… Read More ›
U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afghans ” our allies — have turned their guns on NATO forces 36 times this year, killing 51, most of them Americans”
(CBS News) The strategy for getting U.S. forces out of Afghanistan depends on training Afghan soldiers and police to protect the country themselves, but on Monday the U.S. military suspended most joint field operations with Afghan forces because so many… Read More ›
Declassified documents from 1980 show how US planned to fight a nuclear war: Directive 59
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:12:45 EST, 16 September 2012| UPDATED:12:53 EST, 16 September 2012 Declassified documents have revealed for the first time how the Carter administration planned to fight a nuclear war. Presidential Decision Directive 59, signed by President Jimmy… Read More ›
$475 million of Fuel Gone: Investigators are probing reports of record-shredding by officials in the U.S.-led NATO command that trains the Afghan army
U.S. probes reported record-shredding of fuel buys for Afghan army By Susan Cornwell | Reuters – 17 hrs ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investigators are probing reports of record-shredding by officials in the U.S.-led NATO command that trains the Afghan army… Read More ›
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